Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

University of Essex

Postgraduate MA Full-time 12 Months Teaching

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) MA is a postgraduate degree at University of Essex, based in Colchester, taught full-time over 12 months.

About this course

This is a Masters course that can take you into employment anywhere in the world.
If you are enthusiastic about teaching English as a foreign or second language, then our course offers you vocationally-relevant, research-led training of the highest quality, taught by academics known for their teaching excellence.
You explore teaching methods and the description of English used in the investigation of language learning and teaching, and study additional topics according to your needs. These might include:

- How second language learners acquire vocabulary, and how vocabulary can be taught

- Computer-assisted language-learning

- Literature and language-learning

- Materials design and evaluation

- Teaching Writing in EFL/ESL

You also gain hands-on teaching experience through our Teaching Practice I and Teaching Practice II modules.

Whether you have no prior teaching experience or are already an English language teacher, this course can be adapted to suit you. If you have little or no previous teaching experience, you receive ‘hands on’ teaching practice throughout the course via TEFL, while if you already have more than two year’s full-time teaching experience, you can undertake specialist study through TESOL instead.

Study Options

This course is available in 2 study options:

Part-time

Duration: 24 Months

Qualification: MA

Location: Colchester

Full-time Shown above

Duration: 12 Months

Qualification: MA

Location: Colchester

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Course Details

Qualification
MA
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
12 Months
Start Date
2025

2025-entry data — 2026 offers may differ

Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Colchester
Scheme
Postgraduate
Subjects
Teaching